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A58
SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 24,
2013
• Twitter: @GuardianTT • Web: guardian.co.tt
LONDON---Crystal Palace has hired
former Stoke manager Tony Pulis, hoping
he can revive the struggling club and lift it
out of last place in the Premier League.
The 55-year-old Pulis had been out of
work since leaving Stoke last season and
will take charge after yesterday's Premier
League match against Hull, with caretaker
manager Keith Millen remaining in charge
for the match against the Tigers. Pulis
signed a two-and-a-half year contract and
his first match in charge will be against
Norwich on November 30.
Pulis succeeds Ian Holloway, who left
the club last month after a disappointing
start to the season following the South
London's club return to the topflight.
Palace has just four points from 11 games
but the club hopes Pulis can maintain his
record of never having been relegated as a
manager.
His appointment put an end to weeks of
speculation after Aitor Karanka, Dan
Petrescu, Chris Coleman, Andrea
Stramaccioni and Iain Dowie were all
linked with the job since Holloway's
departure. (AP)
Pulis appointed as Crystal Palace manager
BRISBANE---After spending three
months trying to convince critics
that the last Ashes series was much
closer than it looked, Michael
Clarke s Australian squad did every-
thing they could to ram home the
point against England yesterday.
Resuming at 65--0 and with a
224-run lead, Australia got centuries
from Clarke (113) and David Warner
(124) to lift its total to 401--7 before
declaring with a 560-run lead, leav-
ing England s top order an hour to
survive on day three.
Warner upped the ante after play
by saying the England batsmen "look
like they ve got scared eyes."
Pacemen Ryan Harris and Mitchell
Johnson, aided by a cooling breeze
and gloomy, gathering clouds, dis-
missed opener Michael Carberry (0)
and No 3 Jonathan Trott (9) to have
England reeling at 10--2.
Alastair Cook (11) and Kevin
Pietersen (3) combined to help Eng-
land reach stumps at 24--2, but it
could have been much worse.
Pietersen, playing his 100th Test
and apparently desperate to get off
strike against Johnson, took off for
a quick single and almost had Cook
run-out with the total at ten.
There were shades of the first
innings, when England lost six wick-
ets for nine runs in 58 balls before
eventually being skittled for 136,
until Cook took control with some
composed play in the last half hour
of a day that certainly belonged to
the Australians.
Harris had almost instant success
in England s second innings when
Carberry played a ball onto his
stumps with the total at one.
Trott played an irresponsible shot
to pull a ball from Johnson directly
to Nathan Lyon.
"We ll take the third wicket
tomorrow morning (today) and
hopefully we take the rest after that,"
Warner told a news conference after
stumps. "Our bowlers are bowling
fast at the moment. England are on
the back foot. The way that (Trott)
got out today was pretty poor and
weak. Obviously there s a weakness
there and we re on top of it at the
moment."
Clarke and Warner both started
the series under pressure, and both
responded emphatically in the sec-
ond innings at the Gabba, where
Australia hasn t lost a test in 25 years.
Clarke was out just before tea after
scoring his 25th Test century and
after sharing partnerships of 158 with
Warner and 52 with George Bailey
(34) against a flagging England pace
attack and two increasingly frustrated
slow bowlers.
England has won the last three
Ashes series and certainly isn t out
of contention at the Gabba, although
history is against Cook s team.
The biggest successful fourth-
innings chase at the Gabba was Aus-
tralia s 236--7 against the West Indies
in 1951. And the West Indies 418--7
against Australia in 2003 is the high-
est fourth-innings to win in more
than 130 years of test cricket.
In the corresponding test of the
2010 Ashes series, England scored
517--1 declared after giving up a first-
innings lead in the drawn first test.
Cook scored an unbeaten 235 in that
innings, which set England on course
to win the urn on Australian soil for
the first time in 24 years.
"We ve got an opportunity to
show some character and some fight
to stay in the game," veteran England
paceman Jimmy Anderson said. "We
know it s a long series and if we do
lose this match we re going to go
down fighting, that s just the way
we play our cricket.
"There s four Test matches after
this, so it s not all doom and gloom
if we lose this but we ll keep battling
to the very end."
Warner was a distraction in the
3--0 defeat in England in August,
and is desperate to make amends.
The 27-year-old left-hander lost
his place for two tests on the last
Ashes tour after a night club alter-
cation with England batsman Joe
Root and was later dropped from
Australia s limited-overs squad for
a tour of India due to a lack of form.
But after securing selection for
this with a string of domestic cen-
turies, he hit 13 boundaries and a
giant driven six yesterday which
clattered into the sight screen to
reach 124, but was out three balls
later trying to run a ball from Stuart
Broad down to third man and
instead feathering a catch to Matt
Prior. He also batted with compo-
sure in the first innings until an
ill-judged shot to Broad ended in
dismissal on 49.
Clarke responded to concerns over
his susceptibility to the short ball
with consecutive boundaries against
Broad, who was reintroduced to the
attack almost as soon as the Aus-
tralian captain got onto strike.
Clarke pulled a short ball for a
boundary from near shoulder height
and then hooked the next ball fine
for four to set up his innings. Broad
had taken Clarke s wicket six times
in recent Ashes Tests, including in
the first innings here.
But it was Clarke who got on top
quickly on a ground where he has
scored more than 1,000 Test runs
and averages above 100.
He faced 130 balls and struck ten
boundaries and a six before he was
bowled by Graeme Swann---the Eng-
land spinner s first wicket of the
series---just before tea.
Haddin continued with a run-a-
ball 53, going with his 94 in the first
innings, in a 200th Test he ll remem-
ber. Chris Tremlett had the best fig-
ures of the England bowlers in the
second innings with 3--69 and Broad
had 2--55, giving him eight for the
match. (AP)
England spiralling towards defeat
...chasing 561 for victory
Australia 1st innings 295
England 1st inns 136
Australia 2nd inns
C Rogers c Carberry b Broad .................16
D Warner c Prior b Broad .........................124
S Watson c Broad b Tremlett ...............6
M Clarke b Swann ...........................................113
S Smith c Prior b Tremlett .......................0
G Bailey b Swann ............................................34
B Haddin c Anderson b Tremlett .......53
M Johnson not out .........................................39
P Siddle not out ................................................4
Extras: (4b, 8lb) ....................................12
Total: (7 wickets dec; 94 overs) .....401
Did not bat: NM Lyon, RJ Harris
Fall of wickets: 1--67, 2--75, 3--233,
4--242, 5--294, 6--305, 7--395
Bowling: J Anderson 19--2--73--0, S
Broad 16--4--55--2, C Tremlett
17--2--69--3, G Swann 27--2--135--2, J
Root 15--2--57--0
England 2nd inns
A Cook not out ..................................................11
MA Carberry b Harris ...................................0
I Trott c Lyon b Johnson ............................9
K Pietersen not out ........................................3
Extras: (lb 1) ...........................................1
Total: (2 wickets; 15 overs) ..............24
To bat: IR Bell, JE Root, MJ Prior†, SCJ
Broad, GP Swann, JM Anderson, CT
Tremlett
Fall of wickets: 1--1, 2--10
Bowling: R Harris 5--2--7--1, M Johnson
4--2--7--1, P Siddle 3--1--6--0, N Lyon
3--1--3--0
To ss : Australia, who chose to bat
Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and
HDPK Dharmasena (Sri Lanka);
TV umpire: M Erasmus (South Africa);
Match referee: JJ Crowe (New
Zealand);
Reserve umpire: P Wilson
Australia's Michael Clarke celebrates as he reaches 100 runs on the third
day of the series-opening Ashes cricket Test between England and
Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane, Australia, yesterday. AP PHOTO
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